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John Dewey, widely known as "America's philosopher," surprisingly never set down a complete moral or ethical philosophy. Showing that Dewey's ethics are compatible with the rest of his philosophy, this work corrects the reputation of American pragmatism as a philosophy committed to skepticism and relativism.
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John Dewey, widely known as "America's philosopher," provided important insights into education and political philosophy, but surprisingly never set down a complete moral or ethical philosophy. Gregory Fernando Pappas presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Dewey's ethics. By providing a pluralistic account of moral life that is both unified and coherent, Pappas considers ethics to be key to an understanding of Dewey's other philosophical insights, especially his views on democracy. Pappas unfolds Dewey's ethical vision by looking carefully at the virtues and values of ideal character and community. Showing that Dewey's ethics are compatible with the rest of his philosophy, Pappas corrects the reputation of American pragmatism as a philosophy committed to skepticism and relativism. Readers will find a robust and boldly detailed view of Dewey's ethics in this groundbreaking book.
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A thorough, definitive account of Dewey's ethics
Author Biography
Gregory Fernando Pappas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of numerous articles on the philosophy of William James and John Dewey. He has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as the William James and the Latin American Thought prizes by the American Philosophical Association.
Table of Contents
PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1. Moral Theory and Experience1. Experience as Method2. Moral Theory and Moral Practice3. The Normative Standpoint of PragmatismPart 2. Dewey's View of Moral Experience4. Morality as Experience5. The "What" of Moral Experience6. The "How" of Moral Experience7. Character and Conduct: Dewey and the Great Divide in Ethics8. Present Activity and the Meaning of Moral Life9. Conclusion: The Need for a Recovery of Moral PhilosophyPart 3. The Ideal Moral Life10. The Intelligent, Aesthetic, and Democratic Way of Life11. The Ideal Moral Self12. Democracy as the Ideal Moral Community13. A Philosophical Justification of DemocracyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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"Extremely clear, careful, and straightforward ... always solid and often refreshing." Shannon Sullivan, The Pennsylvania State University "A distinct and important interpretation of Dewey's moral philosophy." Todd Lekan, Muskingum College
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John Dewey, perhaps the most prolific figure in American philosophy and pragmatism, is roundly considered deficient with respect to ethics. Pappas (Texas A&M) addresses this misconception by demonstrating that ethics is the organizing center of Dewey's entire philosophical approach. This is a challenging thesis to argue for both dedicated pragmatists and philosophers of ethics from the analytic or Continental traditions. Pappas's argument moves in three steps: experience as method, moral theory and practice, and the normative standpoint of pragmatism. The claim to normativity is the most interesting and problematic. Pappas says that "the broadest characterization of Dewey's ideal is that he advocates living a moral life that is intelligent, aesthetic, and democratic." Imagination and conscientiousness are primary aspects of this emergent normativity, and Pappas also explores Dewey's notion of affections and virtues of character. Pappas is consistent in signaling the qualitative notion of faith present in Dewey's moral thought, although the content of this faith remains necessarily vague. This book handles Dewey's disparate texts and broad research adeptly, and focuses on the issues of experience and experiment in a holistic treatment of pragmatic ethics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers. --Choice
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"[This] book is impressive in scope and accomplishment. Pappas draws on the entire corpus of Dewey's work to reconstruct Dewey's mature moral philosophy and convincingly shows that Dewey's view is not only distinct and defensible philosophically, but vital for dealing with contemporary real-world concerns." -Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
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This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars, working in the United States and abroad, from law schools and from an array of disciplines in the humanities, to review and analyze existing scholarship and provide thematic content and distinctive arguments on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.
Details ISBN0253219795 Short Title JOHN DEWEYS ETHICS Publisher Indiana University Press Language English ISBN-10 0253219795 ISBN-13 9780253219794 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle Democracy as Experience Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780253219794 UK Release Date 2008-07-02 AU Release Date 2008-07-02 NZ Release Date 2008-07-02 US Release Date 2008-07-02 Author Gregory Pappas Pages 368 Series American Philosophy Publication Date 2008-07-02 Alternative 9780253000309 DEWEY 170.92 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this
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